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The University Daily Kansan
'Bride'worth the bargain
By Amanda Beglin
joyplay@kanson.com
Kansan staff writer
The theater curtain unsheathes a pastel layout, where the set curtains resemble scarves pinned simply in place. The townpeople scurry down the alces to the filtering strings of the orchestra, where they position themselves under the hazy stage lighting of springtime. The mood is set for love.
And then Marenka walks across the stage, a cautious girl whose wildest motions come from hair.
Marenka leads the cast of The Bartered Bride, an opera, written by Bedridden Smetana, opening tomorrow.
Marenka sings in sorrow about being trapped in a marriage her parents will arrange. She instead loves Jenik, a poor and somewhat secret vagabond new to her Czech village.
Meanwhile, the town bustles around her as citizens await a troupe of traveling comedians who were hired to entertain at their town festival. Of course, the promiscuous couples twirling about the stage are well-aware of Marenka's situation.
A flamboyant marriage broker, in a
floor-sweeping petticoat, intends to break up Marenka and Jenik or lose the money Marenka's father had paid him to arrange the other marriage.
He convinces Jenik to barter his chosen bride for a modest sum of money - modest enough to send Marenka into a operatic frenzy when she learns how little she was sold for. Their voices pop as they shrill at each other in every imaginable key.
These exchanges are humorous—as is the groom that Marenka's parents have chosen for her. A stuttering, bumbling fool in an olive green suit with a frilly collar and cuffs, he is emotionally aloof until the traveling comedians literally appear before him.
The actors never really face one another when delivering their speaking parts. Only when they sing do they touch, gaze and respond to the actions of others on stage.
John Staniunas, *Bride* director and choreographer, said he used this approach to keep the audience more attuned to the story.
"We're in a theater." Stanianus recently told the cast. "This is a performance. We want to pull the audience into the festivities."
Play Info
The Bartered Bride will be performed at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, Thursday, April 19 and Friday, April 20, at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. General admission is $16 and $14, student tickets are $8 and $7.
The cast and 39-piece opera orchestra easily yank the audience to attention with several pop culture references and an amazing scene in the third act that will find even the most stubborn opera attendee smiling.
Besides an occasional sheath curtain dropping in, there are no set changes in *Bride*, but this is countered by the array of characters that filter through in dance, song, privacy invasion and entertainment.
Character mixups and passionate outbursts sprinkle this production, which closes the KU theater season.
— Edified by Jasun Richards
Cast members from "The Bartered Bride," a University Theater and Opera production, rehearse a dance using mannequins. Singers and dancers prepared Monday at Murphy Hall for the performance, which opens tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.
Photo by Thad Allender/KANSAN
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